Thing.
new?
Moving?
Food? bite it.
not food, soft outside. hard body. movement?
Pain. it caused pain.
What caused pain. turn to look around. it caused pain.
The thing, it turns again follows in thing's direction...
It loses track of its scent, it returns to the others.
They gather, rub against each other, and dance, showing locations traveled, while rubbing against the regular one the regular one turns trying to tell it something.
its small wound smell of something foreign something new. The scent will be found, it might be danger it might be food, but it will be known.
They swim, they sleep, they hunt again.
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They continue to travel The Defender and the Edge Guardian can count, and they can see enough to measure movement. Crui goes into stupor.
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They find a gathering, fish, food. Groups that can cover and harm, groups that are large and afraid, the bold one dives into scatter the fish-pack, scattering them, and turns as they regather with the danger pointed away. We follow biting catching the ones most behind tearing at the few pain-fish to gouge on the rest.
The fish-pack slows as the pain fish move within them. the familiar one dives through catching a bite, and they retreat.
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I am anxious thinking too much, wasting my waking moments. Yet they can see enough to count time. And can recognize objects that move. They are better with the ear, the flow catchers. I must return to stupor early ruining the rotation, but Hlei shall wake soon enough we have prepared for such a scenario.
Still, Wur has not awoken, though her condition seems not to be worsening, I worry. But, I must sleep.
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The bold one is kept within as they gather to sleep, on their travels awoken when a greater beast is found, scattering around it to find some tracing behind, and surrounding them so the bold one can eat his fill. When the bold one retreats we eat what we can.
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We gather again, a familiar scent is found.
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Hlei awakens all is fine, and safety is guaranteed. Crui is asleep, and He Who Defends must return to stupor soon as well, she will do her duties, but she will be more sedate in them. There should be 3 awake at all times, in case of danger. She checked on Crui, he shall awaken soon, But Ur-Im is taking damage, his stupor incomplete. It seems memories prevent his rest, they will discuss that when he awakens. For to prevent damage those memories may need to be erased.
Counting is hard, it is a repeating task, et it takes effort. Marks left on a shard, memories of lengths, replacing them with another form of storage, lines of lengths. A method to decode this is with them, and they can count and measure longer. She is made aware of the working of their vehicles for He Who Dwells at the Ede, who has been given the name Frei, needs to check the outside again to perform repairs. He must feel it and she shall grip the edge of their string, it is only 2 long counts until Crui awakens, Frei shall check for risky damage, but shell only perform maintenance then.
Frei accedes to her judgment.
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Another hunt, more travel, movement is found by the fast one, edge, as scent familiar.
It follows and the scent is familiar unknown, hard thing. They have had good hunts. They follow.
It finds the thing, it is close, the bold one nibbles on the soft bit, but it gets stuck in their teeth. It might be an external element of prey.
It looks deeper, here is the hard part, is there an entrance to the shell?
They search around.
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Beasts have approached again, more than would be safe, they gather, testing, slapping the ship with their fins. Frei knows not what to do, he approaches Hlei with thoughts of the danger.
Crui, is reaching awakening, and Hlei pushes in more special food to push.
Crui is feeling is pod his memories, food is consumed, one with taste carved into it, "danger."
None are awake and there are a gathering of beasts outside.
Crui is examining his memories, and other is a device in the pod that might do something, one to speak with giants release the spring. He need awaken further.
Hlei reaches the device and the signaler, the vibration thing. And releases a twisted net.
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A sound, one of the giants exists the New thing, Danger, pain, the vibrations are familiar and they cause some fear.
But this one is still small, and an entrance will be found this is not the thickness of a large one.
And pain is caused by one, the thing's mouth has been found, they scatter.
It finds the bold one, he is going to bite at the things fins, the dangerous ones, cause it damage make it bleed. And a sound echos back from the depths, a large one.
The new thing is too difficult it shall not risk a large one in its hunt it turns to leave rubbing against 2 others as it goes.
And the pack follows.
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Crui awakens having left his pod, the ears have found a sound coming back. It is the call of a giant. And he does not understand what that means.
The beasts have left, and he can operate the eyes somewhat, they shall adjust again repair, and retract the nets with the little food that is the beasts have not consumed. travel speed increases slightly as a draft is caught, but it settles again as some of the soft movement fins are pulled back in.
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Some had found food, in the stick fins of the new thing. Dangerous teeth, but fish gathered around when the large one passes. They may check the beast again. take the food from the fins without causing it harm, but that is for another hunt if they come across it again.
They find another fish-pack, these ones glow. Dangerous, but the soft ones follow them.
Hunting is good. it rests.